Forge-steel fulcrum for brake-beams.



A. WAYOGTT.

FORGE STEEL FULORUM FOR BRAKE BEAMS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.10,1914.

1,121,212, Patented Dec. 15,1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT WAYCOTT, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE DAMASGUS BRAKE BEAM 00., OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

FORGE-STEEL FULCRUM FOR BRAKE-BEAMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 10, 1914. Serial No. 831,096.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT WAYCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Forge-Steel Fulcrums for Brake-Beams, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a fulcrum for trussed brake beams, the primary object being to form the bottom of the fulcrum or strut from two members, each member carrying one wall of a tension member seat and having such wallproject across the plane of connection between the members so that the two members of the fulcrum are interlocked by the tension member of the brake beam.

The further object of my invention is to eliminate the tendency to split the fulcrum members apart by the tension member; and

a with these and other objects in view my in vention consists of the parts and combination of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth.

In the drawing :--Figure 1 is an elevation of a trussed brake beam to which my improved fulcrum has been applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of the fulcrum shown in Fig. 1, the brake beam members bein broken away. Fi 3 is an enlarged detail view of Fig. 2 at right angles thereto. Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged detail elevations at right angles to each other showing another embodiment of my invention. Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged detail elevations, at right angles to each other showing a still further em odiment of my invention.

The reference numeral 1, designates the compression member, 2, the tension member of a brake beam of improved construction on which are secured the brake heads 3.

The fulcrum or strut 4, is formed of two parts, 5 and 6, which are bulged intermediate their ends, in order that the brake lever may lie therebetween and be pivoted thereto by means of a suitable bolt fwhich passes through the opening, 7. The lower ends of the members 5 and 6 are brought to juxtaposition and the extreme lower end portions of the members 5 and 6 are deflected across the plane of connection between the members, so that the lower end portion 8, of the member 5 forms one side Wall of the tension member seat, and the lower end portion 9 forms the other side wall of the tension member seat, as is more clearly shown in Fig. 3, from which it will be seen that the lower end portion 8 of. the member 6 is on the other side (with reference to its member) of the plane of connect-ion between the members 5 and 6.

In Figs. 4 and 5 it will be noticed that I have cut away a portion of the end portions of the members 5* and 6 as shown at 10.

In Figs. 6 and 7 it will be seen that I form a tongue 13 on the end of the member 5 which is adapted to pass through aslot 12 in the end portion 11 of the member 6", whereby the end portions of the members 5 and 6 are deflected across the plane between the two members. of the strut or fulcrum is formed to the configuration of the compression member of the brake beam and is clamped to said compression member by means of a strap 14 and a bolt 15.

From the above it will be seen that the tendency of the tension member to split the fulcrum members apart is entirely eliminated, by reason of the fact that the seat portion of the members projects across the plane between the members.

I claim 1. A fulcrum or strut for brake beams comprising two members, each member carrying one wall of a tension member seat and having such wall projecting across the plane between the members.

2. A fulcrum or strut for brake beams comprising two members, the end. portion of each member interlocking and constituting one wall of a tension member seat, such wall projecting across the plane between the members.

3. A fulcrum or strut for brake beams comprising two members formed at one end to receive the compression member of a Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

The other end 4,-

brake beam, the other end of each member The fore oing specification signed at being deflected across the plane between the Cleveland, hi0, this 20th day of March,

two members and each deflected portion 1914.

constituting a seat for the tension member I ALBERT 'WAYCOTT.

5 of the beam, said beam constituting a key to In presence of two witnesses:

interlock the free ends of the fulcrum 1 C. R. WAGNER, against spreading. A. J. MCKENNA. 

